Enabling Access to European VCs and Normalizing Investment into Black & PoC-led Seed-stage Tech Ventures with Jessye Bimono S2 Ep.17

WHERE’S THE FUNDING?

English - September 01, 2021 17:29 - 37 minutes - 2.21 KB
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Jessye Mouangu Bimono is the CEO & co-founder of Stark Ai LABS a Design & Software development company enabling small and medium-size businesses digital transformation. A tech entrepreneur turned emerging fund manager out of the challenges she alongside diverse tech founders experienced in raising capital in France and Luxembourg.

As an emerging fund manager at Audax Ventures, a $15 million upcoming fund, Jessye believes that diverse tech entrepreneurs are the most untapped and undeserved asset management classes in Europe. She primarily leads Audax Alliance, the capital enablement platform backbone of her fund that is enabling access to European VCs and normalizing investment allocation into Black & PoC led seed-stage tech ventures across Fintech, Media, and Software verticals. In that line of work. She is hosting the first capital enablement summit the Audax Alliance Virtual Summit | Diversity Venture Capital Allocation - France | Luxembourg | Global.

The Audax Alliance Summit sheds light on a diverse set of capital allocators from Europe and the US intentionally investing in diverse founders in these geographies.

Key interview highlights:

When looking for funding do the following:
Outbound research of the right VCs that are investing in your sector.
Look for alignment
If you are a diverse founder look for diverse fund allocators who can bring relevant experience and expertise to your business, e.g., women founders looking for women fund allocators who might have experience in their sectors

In Europe, there is a misunderstanding of the market potential for funding diverse founders specifically in France and Luxembourg which is why Jessye is raising funds to address that market opportunity.
Jessyes experience as a founder of color led her to organize the Audax Alliance to the VC fund that she is in the process of raising to capitalize diverse BIPOC founders who are solving global problems and bringing value to global consumers.

Contact: Jessye Bimono on LinkedIn for more details.

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